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  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Death Knight Comprehensive Guide to Death Knight Tanking

    This guide is a compilation work of a lot of things I've been studying and developing that pertain to tanking with a Death Knight. As Kazeyonoma has...

    Posted By Satorri
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    blood, death knight, frost, guide, guides, satorri, tanking, unholy
    • Replies: 280
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    Today 12:56 PM Go to last post
  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Balancing avoidance ratings

    There have been some questions on how to best balance avoidance stats. As it turns out, the basic rules are pretty simple: Get enough defense so...

    Posted By Roana
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    01-27-2010 11:10 AM Go to last post
  3. Sticky Thread Sticky: TPS parser: Warrior, Druid, Paladin, Death Knight

    I've updated my tps parser to work for wotlk with support for warriors, paladins, druids, and death knights. It's missing a lot of the previous...

    Posted By bagelbite
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    08-14-2009 11:14 AM Go to last post
  1. Tanking PW:S and rage generation.

    Hello, This is something that has been puzzling me. According to some a disc priest shields should have no negative effect on rage generation...

    Posted By Acidbaron
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    Today 02:50 PM Go to last post
  2. Moved: Tanking Avoidance vs Armor comparison

    Posted By Plaigh
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    Today 01:12 PM Go to last post
  3. Tanking Reevaluating Stamina vs. Armor (ICC)

    I'm terrible at math so I'm not even going to bother making up numbers to look impressive, rather this is just one of my ponderings O.o While the...

    Posted By Inaara
    • Replies: 6
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    Today 12:40 PM Go to last post
  4. Warrior Vitality Change and the Block Mechanic.

    In light of the 3% buff to vitality, has anyone looked into how much this is going to change "the tanking game" so to speak, as in how it will effect...

    Posted By Spiff
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    Today 08:14 AM Go to last post
  5. Damage DPS/HPS by Spec: Top End, Real World Numbers

    Posted this in some other spots but neglected TankSpot! A project I have been working on recently went live in partnership with StratFu: ...

    Posted By sollaires
    dps hps rankings
    • Replies: 2
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    Today 08:08 AM Go to last post
  6. Tanking Troubles with Professor Putricide - Slime Puddles

    Hey Tankspot readers. Our guild has a problem with the slime puddles in ICC10. Our Off-Tank is the abomination as Aliena suggested in her guide....

    Posted By Zoldaniex
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    advice, encounter, halp! need, professor putrice, puddles, shrink
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    Today 07:42 AM Go to last post
  7. Warrior Dual-Wield Warrior (No Titan's Grip)

    Look further down the thread for combat log postings. I was messing around with my Fury spec earlier today and I had an epiphany of sorts. I've...

    Posted By Sliverspark
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    Today 02:55 AM Go to last post
  8. Paladin Pally Tanking Guide?

    Hey everyone. I have a guildie that really wants to start tanking main spec for our 2nd team ICC10 runs, but his gearscore is high enough that...

    Posted By Goros
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    Yesterday 10:27 AM Go to last post
  9. Tanking Armor. Why I love it, and why you should too.

    Greetings tankspotters. I'm one of our guilds two mainspec tanks, and I've noticed people coming to me for advice. One of the things I've noticed...

    Posted By Martie
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    Yesterday 07:15 AM Go to last post
  10. Tanking Looking for Prot Warrior AOE Tanking Build

    So i find myself duel spec'd with a Tanking main spec and a Fury offspec. With the heavy melee train my guild runs it's hard to gear for Fury and be...

    Posted By Ursaul
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    Yesterday 05:30 AM Go to last post
  11. Tanking Upcoming Parry, Block Changes

    Some upcoming Cata changes from blue: Block Rating - Block is being redesigned to scale better. Blocked attacks will simply hit for 30% less...

    Posted By LogisticSaucer
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    03-15-2010 06:14 PM Go to last post
  12. Tanking Teaser: Introduction to advanced healer/tank evaluation

    This is a teaser to the full version of "advanced healer/tank evaluation". Since it would take very long to write the full version, and not all the...

    Posted By Deathshay
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    deviation, healing, health, incoming damage, tanking, theorycrafting
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    03-15-2010 01:56 PM Go to last post
  13. Tanking ICC Blood Princes Tanks?

    My guild has been going through some turmoil so we have had issues with 25m recently and as such broke out into 10 mans last night. I was happy to...

    Posted By Squirrelnut
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    03-14-2010 08:37 AM Go to last post
  14. Warrior [3.3] Re-examining UA Protection?

    Upon reading the changes being made to Revenge, the thought of the old UA (Unrelenting Assault) Protection build came back to mind. Some of the 3.3...

    Posted By Adonijah
    • Replies: 2
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    03-13-2010 01:42 PM Go to last post
  15. Tanking Feral Tank Extra Threat Trick

    Ok , so here is something i was thinking about yesterday , and im looking forward to hear others people thought about it. So, lets say we are in...

    Posted By Fc-Silvermoon
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    03-13-2010 08:48 AM Go to last post
  16. Tanking Improved Demoralizing Shout

    I've done some searching have yet to come up with a good answer so I not posting the question. Does Demo Shout have a place in a Prot warriors...

    Posted By Griffin
    • Replies: 10
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    03-13-2010 07:35 AM Go to last post
  17. 'Complete' Protection Warrior DPS/TPS spreadsheet

    This thread is purely for the development of the Protection Warrior spreadsheet and the baseline conclusion from the numbers produced. Please keep...

    Posted By WarTotem
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    03-13-2010 05:53 AM Go to last post
  18. Swam's Deathknight Frost Tank Guide

    This Guide is made as of patch 3.3 (ok Lulia Update for ya, let me know what you think) There is a lot out there on Frost tanking and a...

    Posted By Swam
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    • Replies: 185
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    03-12-2010 10:38 AM Go to last post
  19. Tanking 5% health. Is stam worth more now?

    Now that there's the ICC buff stacking up, it's starting to look to me as though stamina might be preferable to armor, particularly for any warriors...

    Posted By almightypancake
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    03-11-2010 10:52 AM Go to last post
  20. Death Knight PTR 3.3.3 - Death Knight - Tanks

    Death Knight Icy Touch: This ability now causes a very high amount of threat while the death knight is in Frost Presence. Icy Touch threat...

    Posted By dotJEM
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    03-09-2010 12:34 PM Go to last post
  21. Tanking Caps are confusing me ??

    I'm a dual wield DK frost tank spec (10/54/7). I'm trying to understand what I need for a Hit Cap. At 27% * 32.79 = 886. with NoCS (-98) the hit...

    Posted By Doplar
    • Replies: 11
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    03-09-2010 06:33 AM Go to last post
  22. Death Knight DK tanking and D&D

    Having been in innumerable groups with someone asking me why I don't use D&D I'm beginning to wonder...should a DK tank always be using D&D...

    Posted By Lux
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    03-08-2010 07:13 AM Go to last post
  23. Tanking rawr nub needs advice

    i finally started using rawr, and it's really neat, but i'm confused by what it's telling me. this is for bear tanking btw. it's telling me to...

    Posted By lesteel
    • Replies: 3
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    03-07-2010 01:17 AM Go to last post
  24. Death Knight Upcoming WotN change

    From the latest PTR patch notes. I love this change!

    Posted By vine
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    03-06-2010 09:05 PM Go to last post
  25. Warrior In the 102.4% unhittable cap, why the 2.4%?

    I understand that to become unhittable, miss, dodge, parry, and block must hit 102.4% when added together, but why that number? Where does that 2.4%...

    Posted By Dayon
    • Replies: 10
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    03-06-2010 02:28 PM Go to last post
  26. Tanking Tank Classes Differentiation, Viability and Encounter Design

    Tank Classes Differentiation, Viability and Encounter Design I'd like to share a thought I had about current class balance and how it affects...

    Posted By Adrael
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    03-05-2010 09:53 PM Go to last post
  27. Tanking Bears, Plate Tanks and Armor.

    How has the changes to the plate tank sets (more armor) affected the position of bear tanks? I understand that armor is a key stat in ICC and...

    Posted By Riposoeterno
    • Replies: 11
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    03-05-2010 09:46 PM Go to last post
  28. Tanking ICC geared Death Knight tank's and expertise.

    I'm a blood Dk tank as my main spec and I have always tried to maintain 35+ expertise with expertise food. I recently have gotten Cryptmaker which I...

    Posted By Saintoftaint
    • Replies: 15
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    03-05-2010 02:47 PM Go to last post
  29. Level 80 boss AP

    Since I haven't seen any studies done on level 80 boss AP yet, a hunter and myself did some demo shout tests on Maexxna tonight. The results were...

    Posted By Deckard
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    03-05-2010 05:33 AM Go to last post
  30. Tanking Looking for the Shield Spec vs Focused rage thread

    Anyone know where it is, tried search but i don't know how to use search properly. Thanks

    Posted By Grant
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 344
    03-04-2010 10:21 AM Go to last post

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